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+Project Gutenberg's Four Hundred Humorous Illustrations, by Various
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
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+
+Title: Four Hundred Humorous Illustrations
+       With Portrait and Biographical Sketch
+
+Author: Various
+
+Illustrator: John Leech
+
+Release Date: January 30, 2014 [EBook #44801]
+
+Language: English
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+Character set encoding: ASCII
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FOUR HUNDRED HUMOROUS ILLUSTRATIONS ***
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+Produced by David Widger from page scans generously provided
+by the Internet Archive
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+FOUR HUNDRED HUMOROUS ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+By John Leech
+
+With Portrait and Biographical Sketch.
+
+1868
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+
+BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
+
+John Leech was born in London, on the 29th August, 1817. His father,
+John Leech, was an Irishman, a man of fine culture, and a good
+Shakespearean scholar. He was the landlord of the London Coffee House on
+Ludgate Hill, one of the most important of the city hotels at that time.
+For a while the father was successful in his vocation, but ultimately,
+through financial embarrassment, was obliged to give up the hotel.
+
+The father was a man of real ability, possessing considerable skill
+with the pencil, and from him, no doubt, the son inherited his special
+talent. And, again, on the mother's side there was relationship with the
+great scholar Richard Bentley, so that on both sides of the house
+young Leech had considerable advantages so far as mental heredity was
+concerned.
+
+At a very early age the mother observed the extraordinary aptitude for
+drawing that her boy possessed, and did all in her power to encourage
+it. When young Leech was only three years old, he was found by the
+family friend, the great artist, Flaxman, seated on his mother's knee,
+drawing with much gravity. The sculptor pronounced his sketch to be
+remarkable, and gave the following advice:--"Do not let him be cramped
+with lessons in drawing, but let his genius follow its own bent. He will
+astonish the world." A few years after this, some more of the youthful
+artist's drawings were shown to the celebrated sculptor, and, after
+examination, he said--"The boy must be an artist; he will be nothing
+else or less."
+
+At seven, the boy was sent to Charterhouse. This early departure from
+home was, of course, a sore trial to the fond mother, who was bound up
+in her child, but, knowing that it was for her son's future welfare,
+she threw no obstacles in the way of his departure from home. She was,
+however, resolved that somehow she would see her child frequently. With
+this object she hired a room in one of the houses commanding a view of
+the playground, and there frequently she sat behind a blind, happy
+in getting an occasional glimpse of her boy--sometimes at play, and
+sometimes strolling about in the grounds with his school mates. During
+his stay of nine years at Charterhouse, the boy did not distinguish
+himself in classical studies. Indeed, all that can be said, is that he
+acquired a thoroughly sound English education. He was, however, liked
+by everyone at school for his good temper and winning ways. Among his
+fellow pupils was the famous William Makepeace Thackeray, with whom he
+formed a warm friendship that lasted throughout life.
+
+At sixteen years of age, young Leech left Charterhouse, and,
+notwithstanding Flaxman's advice that the boy should follow the
+profession of an artist, his father put him to the medical profession at
+St. Bartholomew's, under Mr Stanley, the surgeon of the Hospital. After
+a time he was placed under Mr Whittle, an eccentric practitioner at
+Hoxton, and subsequently under Dr John Cockle, afterwards physician to
+the Royal Free Hospital. Throughout his various situations, young Leech
+become famous among his fellow students and friends for his extremely
+clever--and, at the same time, always good-natured--caricatures. He was
+for ever drawing scenes, characters, and incidents in daily life. About
+this time, young Leech's liking for horses probably received its first
+development, through his friendship with Mr Charles Adams. Mr Adams
+was the owner of two horses which it was his delight to drive tandem
+fashion, and in his excursions Leech was his constant companion. To this
+circumstance we are, no doubt, partially indebted for many of the clever
+bits of driving and country road life depicted by the pencil of the
+artist. At this early period of his career, Leech made numerous life
+friendships with men who afterwards became distinguished. Notable among
+these men were Albert Smith and Percival Leigh.
+
+At eighteen years of age, Leech published his first work, entitled
+"Etchings and Sketchings by A. Pen, Esq." It was a small work of four
+quarto sheets. As he got more and more engrossed in artistic work, the
+young student seems to have gradually given up his medical studies, and
+to have resolved to live by his pencil. In course of time he turned his
+attention to lithography, and, having drawn pictures upon lithographic
+stones, he has been known to spend many a weary day in carrying such
+heavy stones from publisher to publisher in search of a buyer. But as
+his fame increased, the difficulty of getting remunerative employment
+rapidly diminished. A good deal of Leech's early work, among other
+things, was in connection with _Bell's Life in London_, the best-known
+sporting paper of the time. Here he was associated with Cruikshank,
+Madons, "Phiz," and Seymour. It was when at work for _Bell's Life_ that
+he first imbibed a taste for field sports, which developed into a strong
+feature in his pictorial career. He joined the hounds in Herefordshire,
+where Millais became his fellow pupil in acquiring the arts of the
+chase. Among the schemes of drollery that our artist participated in
+about this time was the _Comic Latin Grammar_, Leigh contributing the
+text, and Leech the illustrations. This was followed by the _Comic
+English Grammar_, and likewise by the _Children of the Mobility_, a
+parody on a well-known work devoted to the serious glorification of our
+juvenile aristocracy.
+
+But in August of 1841 Leech began the great work of his life--a work,
+indeed, which he never quitted but with life--namely, his connection
+with _Punch_. The first number of _Punch_ was issued on the 17th July,
+1841, and Leech's first contribution to it appeared on the 7th August,
+in the fourth number. For about twenty years, it may be said, he was its
+leading spirit, and, by his contributions to its pages, got in all about
+L40,000. Political caricatures he produced by the score, and held up
+to ridicule many of the absurd customs of the pretensious and exclusive
+sections of Society. Like Thackeray and Dickens, Leech detested snobbery
+in all walks of life, and depicted it unsparingly in a way that it never
+had been dealt with before. Week after week there flowed from his pencil
+an endless stream of scenes of high life and low life, of indoor life
+and street life, now of England, and then of foreign lands, and of all
+times, seasons, and occasions, as also numerous scenes of deer-stalking
+and fishing, and of horses and hounds, in all cases depicting whatever
+he undertook with extraordinary accuracy combined with infinite humour.
+Also, when social or national wrong called for grave censure, Leech knew
+how to administer it, not only without giving unnecessary offence, but
+in the way best calculated to bring about reform and redress. In all
+circumstances he was essentially a humorist, and he found his most
+genial vocation in depicting life and character in the social circles
+he frequented. As a keen observer of the everyday life around him, he
+delighted to depict the corporation magnate, the artist, the medical
+student, the spendthrift, the policeman, the cab driver, the coster,
+the carman, and hundreds of other such phases of everyday life and
+character, seeing humour and drollery where others failed to observe
+anything but the commonest aspects of everyday monotony. Of course it
+should not be forgotten that, if Leech did great things for _Punch_, his
+connection with that journal gave him great opportunities, and brought
+him into the very forefront of British artists. He was considered the
+most successful humorist of the day, and his pencil was in constant
+request. In the course of years he became the illustrator of about
+eighty volumes. When it is realised that the sketches in _Punch_ and the
+illustrations in these eighty volumes combined amount to some thousands
+in number, the mind is much impressed with the great amount of industry
+and application that Leech displayed throughout life. Even a tour to the
+Highlands, or to Ireland, or an outing to any portion of the country,
+was at all times turned to practical account for work later on.
+
+This incessant brain-work produced an extreme nervous sensitiveness. In
+this state he was much affected by noise and was literally driven from
+his house in Brunswick Square by street music. He removed to Kensington,
+where he hoped to obtain a release from this annoyance by adopting a
+device of double windows. But he had no peace. He often introduced in
+the pages of _Punch_ the barrel-organ nuisance. The public, however,
+at that time had no idea what these sketches from real life cost the
+artist. In 1864, Leech was ordered to take a holiday on the Continent.
+Upon his return to his London home in the autumn of the same year,
+although better in health, he was still strangely susceptible to noise.
+He spoke with more than his usual earnestness about the sufferings which
+the street organs gave him, and about the smallness of the sympathy
+which he received from people who had no weakness in the same direction.
+This extraordinary sensitiveness to noise was only a secondary phase or
+symptom of the real ailment. The real malady from which he suffered was
+breast-pang, or spasms of the heart, a form of angina pectoris. Although
+it was necessary to warn Leech against all excitement, riding, quick
+walking, or overwork, it was not supposed that he was in immediate
+danger, and, if he could only find rest and quiet, great hopes were
+entertained of his recovery. However, the sad end came when quite
+unexpected. In the morning of the 29th of October, 1864, he spoke
+hopefully of the future to his wife. In a few hours afterwards he
+whispered into the same living ear--"I am going," and fell into his
+father's arms in a faint. Three hours afterwards he expired. The news of
+his death went over the country with a dismal shock; for in what house
+was John Leech not an inmate in one form or another?
+
+Leech was tall, with an elegant figure, over six feet in height,
+graceful and gentlemanly in manner, with a fine head and a handsome
+face. In action he was nimble, vigorous, and yet gentle, capable of the
+heartiest mirth, and yet generally quiet. He was singularly modest, both
+as a man and an artist. The perpetual going to nature kept him humble as
+well as made him rich. His consideration, too, for others was apparent
+at all times, and the gentleness of his nature was remarkable. When
+it is considered that all these beautiful traits of character were
+accompanied by such extraordinary talent and wisdom, one is profoundly
+impressed with the greatness of the man. No wonder so many mourned when
+such a great, gentle, and graceful spirit passed away. It was a national
+loss, and as such was realised throughout the homes of the United
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